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York: William Morrow, 1990.
* 479 pages.
*
* Operation Phoenix
*
* Along with saturation bombing of civilian populations, Operation Phoenix
* has to rate as America's most atrocious chapter in the Vietnam War.
*
* Between 1967 to 1973 an estimated 40,000 Vietnamese were killed by CIA-
* sponsored "counterterror" and "hunter-killer" teams, and hundreds of
* thousands were sent to secret interrogation centers.
*
* William Colby's records show 20,587 dead between 1968 and 1971, though he
* likes to believe that most were killed in military combat and afterwards
* identified as part of the VC infrastructure.
*
* Other testimony suggests that Colby was a bit disingenuous in these 1971
* hearings. At one point Congressman Ogden Reid pulled out a list signed by
* a CIA officer that named VC cadre rounded up in a particular action in
* 1967.
*
* "It is of some interest that on this list, 33 of the 61 names were
* women and some persons were as young as 11 and 12," noted Reid.
*
* Valentine spent four years researching this name-intensive book, and
* managed to interview over 100 Phoenix participants. If post-Vietnam
* America had ever looked into a mirror, this book might have become a
* bestseller. Instead it was published just as the Gulf War allowed us to
* resume business as usual, and went virtually unnoticed.
# The Baltimore Sun, January 27 1997
#
# Amnesty International is calling for a Congressional investigation into
# a CIA torture manual they came into possession of "Counterintelligence
# Interrogation."
#
# The comprehensive manual even includes "medical, chemical or electrical"
# tips for torturers such as "If a new safe house is to be used, the
# electric current should be known in advance so that transformers or
# other modifying devices will be on hand if needed."
: "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-8069
* 479 pages.
*
* Operation Phoenix
*
* Along with saturation bombing of civilian populations, Operation Phoenix
* has to rate as America's most atrocious chapter in the Vietnam War.
*
* Between 1967 to 1973 an estimated 40,000 Vietnamese were killed by CIA-
* sponsored "counterterror" and "hunter-killer" teams, and hundreds of
* thousands were sent to secret interrogation centers.
*
* William Colby's records show 20,587 dead between 1968 and 1971, though he
* likes to believe that most were killed in military combat and afterwards
* identified as part of the VC infrastructure.
*
* Other testimony suggests that Colby was a bit disingenuous in these 1971
* hearings. At one point Congressman Ogden Reid pulled out a list signed by
* a CIA officer that named VC cadre rounded up in a particular action in
* 1967.
*
* "It is of some interest that on this list, 33 of the 61 names were
* women and some persons were as young as 11 and 12," noted Reid.
*
* Valentine spent four years researching this name-intensive book, and
* managed to interview over 100 Phoenix participants. If post-Vietnam
* America had ever looked into a mirror, this book might have become a
* bestseller. Instead it was published just as the Gulf War allowed us to
* resume business as usual, and went virtually unnoticed.
# The Baltimore Sun, January 27 1997
#
# Amnesty International is calling for a Congressional investigation into
# a CIA torture manual they came into possession of "Counterintelligence
# Interrogation."
#
# The comprehensive manual even includes "medical, chemical or electrical"
# tips for torturers such as "If a new safe house is to be used, the
# electric current should be known in advance so that transformers or
# other modifying devices will be on hand if needed."
: "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-8069